Works Progress Administration

[Captain Don]

Better known as the WPA, it helped my grandparents survive in the 30's, is President elect Obama planning to resurrect the WPA? His comments about employing millions of people, and working to maintain our infrastructure?

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html

 

[VTSeaRay]

That's what I thought, when I heard it. Someone else do this too. hmmm...

 

[tmhudson2]

Our grandparents grew up accustomed to manual labor. Can you see all those unemployed investment bankers with tools in hand, building a road or a cabin in a national park? I can't.

The manual labor workers who may otherwise lose their jobs in the auto industry are likely to have their jobs 'saved' by Congress, so they won't have to take WPA-type jobs.

 

[VTSeaRay]

re: all those bankers doing manual labor. Well, that's what Hitler did, and it was tough for the first 4 months or so they said for the business people, since back then, Germany didn't have the machines to help build the Autobahn. People were digging with shovels and picks. After a number of years, they started getting steam shovels and bulldozers involved, but initially, it was a hardship.

-VtSeaRay

 

[uraldyx]

Maybe if they knew what it was like to do manual labor, they may have made wiser investments. :grin: